For scientific papers on AGW, record happenings in the Arctic and the Greenland, Himalayan and Antarctic icesheets. Also weatherstorms and higher than average rainfalls and other extreme weather events.

Includes a YouTube Robert made—not a polished presentation but full of information. Definitely above The Moronic’s level of understanding (Snow—so ice age!)

It’s the kind of pattern — within a highly charged atmosphere — that is capable of producing serious instances of severe weather. Heavy rainfall, hail, lightning and tornadoes are all more likely. Factors associated with climate change contributing to the situation include — much warmer than normal ocean surfaces off the U.S. Eastern Seaboard and Gulf Coast, a much warmer than normal Arctic Ocean region for this time of year, displaced polar air near Hudson Bay, and warmer than normal temperatures over much of the U.S.

As Greenland melt comes more into play, and as temperatures continue to spike higher over the Arctic Ocean in coming years, we can expect to see similar patterns producing greater instability and more intense storms. Particularly for the land zones near the North Atlantic. And so what we are seeing now is a likely prelude of events to come as the Earth continues to warm coordinate with continued fossil fuel burning — with mitigating factors primarily involving reduced carbon emissions.

You can expect to see the snake oil salesman picking examples of heavy rain and more especially hail as “Evidence!” of an ice age even tho the heavy precipitation is due to warm oceans and displaced Arctic air over parts of Canada.

Hail, I repeat once more, is formed high up in the atmosphere in the strong convection of big thunderstorms. That is why hail can fall on a warm January day in Adelaide! Hail has N O T H I N G to do with supposed surface cooling. Look up “hail” in wiki. As the globe heats and more water evaporates off warmer seas into warmer air and storms are fed more heat as well as more moisture you can expect hailstones to increase in size somewhat.

As storms are fed more energy you can expect more lightning—and, yes, the snake oil seller has claimed lightning as a sign of the ice age. Easy when you don’t need to know science to make a case.

I repeat again, if the globe was actually cooling significantly (more than the 0.13°C cooling a GSM would cause) then seas and air would be cooler and evaporation and hence precipitation would be less.

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The reference mean sea level (Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2 and Jason-3) since January 1993 (left) is calculated after removing the annual and semi-annual signals. A 2-month filter is applied to the red points, while a 6-month filter is used on the blue curve. By applying the postglacial rebound correction (-0.3 mm/year), the rise in mean sea level has thus been estimated as 3.33 mm/year (mean slope of the plotted data). Analysing the uncertainty of each altimetry correction made for calculating the GMSL, as well as a comparison with tide gauges gives an error in the GMSL slope of approximately 0.5 mm/year with a 90% confidence interval. (Credits CLS/Cnes/Legos)

Sea levels rise from two causes:

1. Meltwater from glaciers and icesheets as these retreat and destabilise;

2. Thermal expansion as oceans warm. Heat water and it expands.

We have seen how the big glaciers draining the icesheets in East and West Antarctica are retreating. As warm currents from the oceans reach Antarctica the grounding lines, where the boundary between ice resting on bedrock and ice that floats on seawater, retreat, undercutting the glaciers. At some time the ice floating on seawater will break off and float away.

Sea level rise is not uniform:

Combined map of regional patterns of observed sea level (in mm/year). This map can be obtained using gridded, multi-mission Ssalto/Duacs data since 1993, which enable the local slopes to be estimated with a very high resolution (1/4 of a degree on a Cartesian projection). Isolated variations in MSL are thus revealed, mainly in the major ocean currents and ENSO events (Credits EU Copernicus Marine Service, CLS, Cnes, Legos).

Note the strong sea level rise in the Gulf and off the US east coast, a sign of the slowing AMOC.

As RobertScribbler writes:

As the Earth has steadily warmed to 1.1 C above 1880s averages, the oceans of our world have risen. At first, the rate of rise was very mild — a mere 0.6 mm per year during the early 20th Century. However, as the rate of global warming increased and the oceans took in more heat, the middle 20th Century saw sea level rise increase to 1.4 mm per year. By the end of the 20th Century, the polar glaciers had begun to melt in earnest. And from 1990 to the present day, the rate of sea level rise has accelerated to 3.3 mm per year.

Due to more warm water invading the basal regions of glaciers and more ice bergs calving into the world ocean, the annual rate at which ocean levels increase continues to jump higher. And during recent years — from 2010 to 2018 — the world ocean has risen by nearly half a centimeter each year (4.6 mm).

The coming El Nino will be mild. How long before we get another strong El Nino? What will happen to sea level rise then?

The fact that sea levels are rising completely negates any weak argument that we are in an ice age due to a GSM. I have never seen any of the ice age frauds provide any evidence that we are moving into a GSM. Never.

Abbott & Co are going to cause the mother and father of all recessions—be prepared!

The reference mean sea level (Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1, Jason-2 and Jason-3) since January 1993 (left) is calculated after removing the annual and semi-annual signals. A 2-month filter is applied to the red points, while a 6-month filter is used on the blue curve. By applying the postglacial rebound correction (-0.3 mm/year), the rise in mean sea level has thus been estimated as 3.33 mm/year (mean slope of the plotted data). Analysing the uncertainty of each altimetry correction made for calculating the GMSL, as well as a comparison with tide gauges gives an error in the GMSL slope of approximately 0.5 mm/year with a 90% confidence interval. (Credits CLS/Cnes/Legos)

Sea levels rise from two causes:

1. Meltwater from glaciers and icesheets as these retreat and destabilise;

2. Thermal expansion as oceans warm. Heat water and it expands.

We have seen how the big glaciers draining the icesheets in East and West Antarctica are retreating. As warm currents from the oceans reach Antarctica the grounding lines, where the boundary between ice resting on bedrock and ice that floats on seawater, retreat, undercutting the glaciers. At some time the ice floating on seawater will break off and float away.

Sea level rise is not uniform:

Combined map of regional patterns of observed sea level (in mm/year). This map can be obtained using gridded, multi-mission Ssalto/Duacs data since 1993, which enable the local slopes to be estimated with a very high resolution (1/4 of a degree on a Cartesian projection). Isolated variations in MSL are thus revealed, mainly in the major ocean currents and ENSO events (Credits EU Copernicus Marine Service, CLS, Cnes, Legos).

Note the strong sea level rise in the Gulf and off the US east coast, a sign of the slowing AMOC.

As RobertScribbler writes:

As the Earth has steadily warmed to 1.1 C above 1880s averages, the oceans of our world have risen. At first, the rate of rise was very mild — a mere 0.6 mm per year during the early 20th Century. However, as the rate of global warming increased and the oceans took in more heat, the middle 20th Century saw sea level rise increase to 1.4 mm per year. By the end of the 20th Century, the polar glaciers had begun to melt in earnest. And from 1990 to the present day, the rate of sea level rise has accelerated to 3.3 mm per year.

Due to more warm water invading the basal regions of glaciers and more ice bergs calving into the world ocean, the annual rate at which ocean levels increase continues to jump higher. And during recent years — from 2010 to 2018 — the world ocean has risen by nearly half a centimeter each year (4.6 mm).

The coming El Nino will be mild. How long before we get another strong El Nino? What will happen to sea level rise then?

The fact that sea levels are rising completely negates any weak argument that we are in an ice age due to a GSM. I have never seen any of the ice age frauds provide any evidence that we are moving into a GSM. Never.

Abbott & Co are going to cause the mother and father of all recessions—be prepared!

The alert level for two bushfires nearing a township of 35,000 people in the south of Western Australia has been downgraded as firefighters manage to halt the blazes’ destructive paths.

Firefighters have been battling more than 30 active fires in the region, after a prescribed burn escaped containment lines and winds from the season’s first strong cold front fanned flames on Thursday night.

Nearly winter and there is a destructive bushfire! Note it was another prescribed burn that went out of control—the extended bushfire season (and wildfire season globally) makes fuel reduction burns very difficult!

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I saw some studies mentioned that as minimum night time temperatures increased CO2 uptake decreased and there was also a decrease in protein. A new study shows just this:

Researchers find rice grown in high carbon dioxide environments may be less nutritious

Scientists are warning that rice — one of the world's most important cereal crops and the primary food source for more than 2 billion people — may become less nutritious in the future.

Researchers in Japan and China have found that protein, iron and zinc levels in rice all fell significantly when grown in higher carbon dioxide environments.

For the experiments, scientists built 17-metre-wide octagons in Japanese and Chinese rice paddies that pumped carbon dioxide to simulate the kind of CO2 concentrations expected in the next 50 years (568-590 parts per million).

The research, published in the journal Science Advances, found on average from the varieties tested, protein levels fell by 10 per cent, zinc 8 per cent and iron 5 per cent.

Levels of vitamins B1, B2, B5, and B9 also fell — though results were far more varied.

"When we looked at vitamin B we looked at nine different varieties from Japan and China and they interestingly responded to high CO2 concentration in different ways," the University of Tokyo's Kazuhiko Kobayashi said.

"Some varieties showed a very large decline, some varieties much less a drop of vitamin contents."

Booby is orgasming in his unwashed underpants at the fronts etc coming from Antarctica. Lowest temperatures for two years!

Me, I wonder if we are getting more Antarctic weather/weather systems then before and if that is due to the weaker, chaotic southern Jet Stream. Antarctic air hitting the SE of Australia cools that part of the country—but the absence of that cold air from Antarctica means Antarctica warms up temporarily—globally no change you see?

Couple of years ago cold air from the Antarctic Peninsula headed north and hit the east coast of Australia and travelled north bringing snow even to southern Queensland. Same principle—Australia got a bit colder but Antarctica must have temporarily warmed.

Definitely we are getting more weather/systems reaching us from Antarctica and undoubtedly that is to do with the weakening of the southern Jet Stream. Weakening due to AGW.

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It seems aerosols (sulphites) might be masking AGW and the intensity of storms: as the population in China insists on cleaner air those aerosols will be controlled for like they were in America and Europe earlier.

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As the Earth’s atmosphere warms, the atmospheric circulation changes. These changes vary by region and time of year, but there is evidence that anthropogenic warming causes a general weakening of summertime tropical circulation1–8. Because tropical cyclones are carried along within their ambient environmental wind, there is a plausible a priori expectation that the translation speed of tropical cyclones has slowed with warming. In addition to circulation changes, anthropogenic warming causes increases in atmospheric water-vapour capacity, which are generally expected to increase precipitation rates9. Rain rates near the centres of tropical cyclones are also expected to increase with increasing global temperatures10–12. The amount of tropical-cyclone-related rainfall that any given local area will experience is proportional to the rain rates and inversely proportional to the translation speeds of tropical cyclones. Here I show that tropical-cyclone translation speed has decreased globally by 10 per cent over the period 1949–2016, which is very likely to have compounded, and possibly dominated, any increases in local rainfall totals that may have occurred as a result of increased tropical-cyclone rain rates. The magnitude of the slowdown varies substantially by region and by latitude, but is generally consistent with expected changes in atmospheric circulation forced by anthropogenic emissions. Of particular importance is the slowdown of 30 per cent and 20 per cent over land areas affected by western North Pacific and North Atlantic tropical cyclones, respectively, and the slowdown of 19 per cent over land areas in the Australian region. The unprecedented rainfall totals associated with the ‘stall’ of Hurricane Harvey13–15 over Texas in 2017 provide a notable example of the relationship between regional rainfall amounts and tropical-cyclone translation speed. Any systematic past or future change in the translation speed of tropical cyclones, particularly over land, is therefore highly relevant when considering potential changes in local rainfall totals.

Re the “anthropogenic warming causes increases in atmospheric water-vapour capacity” the warmer air now can hold close to 8% more moisture than early 1900s air could. Not surprising that precipitation has increased. As seas and air warm then we have warmer, moister air. Over land, which of course also warms, thermals will be bigger. So thunderstorms will have stronger thermals, updrafts. That sends the moist, warm air high up in the atmosphere where air pressure is less and temperatures colder. Adiabatic cooling, the cooling you get on expansion of a gas cools the moist air further and the moisture condenses and freezes. A tiny nuclei of ice can have more water freeze on to it—nucleation. The budding hailstone gets heavier and starts to fall. As it falls it can freeze more ice around it, even freeze other hailstones to itself. Once it drops below the cloud level of the thunderstorm the hail stones are fixed in size.

It may be counter-intuitive but AGW will mean more and more precipitation is as hail.

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https://cleantechnica.com/2018/06/16/full-fledged-5-alarm-climate-emergency-in-antarctica/here a interesting article monky.The latest report — known as the “Ice Sheet Mass Balance Inter-Comparison Exercise” — was published in the journal Nature on June 13. It collects input from 84 climate scientists at 44 institutions around the world. The researchers used three different ways of measuring ice loss on the world’s southernmost continent.Three Measurements, One ResultFirst, according to The Atlantic, they measured the gravity field of the Antarctic ice sheet. We rarely think of ice as having a gravitational effect but it does, just like the moon. Satellites like those used in the NASA’s GRACE program can measure that gravitational field from space.Second, researchers aimed radar and lasers at the surface of Antarctica to detect its surface altitude, which they can then combine with knowledge of ice physics and topography to compute its balance. Third, by measuring the velocity of moving glaciers (often with GPS), researchers can calculate how much snow is being added to a glacier and how much is disappearing into the sea.

Bongalong... for some reason women are just so superior to anything that ever existed or will ever exist!

Glonbe warming, less polar freezing days and what happens? The tundra, the so–called permafrost—thaws! Building shift and crack, towns become uninhabitable:

villages like Kivalina in north-west Alaska will have to move within the next 10 years, Romanovsky explains. “But estimates show cost of moving is about $200m (£150m) per village of 300 people.”

“I think by now there are 70 villages who really have to move because of thawing permafrost,” Romanovsky says. “But moving villages to another location on permafrost is very difficult to guarantee for 30 years or so and the federal government doesn’t want to pay for something they have to pay for again.”

Wet bulb temperatures in not that many years in parts of the tropics and the SE of the US will be high enough to kill a healthy adult just sitting in the shade. With the high Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico temperatures high wet bulb temperatures will make life uncomfortable—you can’t cool by sweating!